Bug Description

Binary package hint: unity

Unity has a good interface for finger oriented touch screen devices, but top panel is too small (not comfortable to touch it by finger). How can I increase panel and icons size for comfort using it on tablets?

Thanks Robotex for reporting this. As of now, I don't think the top panel and icons are re-sizable yet. I could be mistaken, but i think it is being worked on, and once more stable, will be customizable in a future release. As of now, I think you can use Comfity to re-size the panel, but im not sure about re-sizing the indicators.

For me is important to decrease top panel size. I am trying to change some variables in unity source code and resizing manually images in /usr/share/unity/themes/ but with no success. I hope so Canonical guys will figure out something and enable this functionality.

I propose that the panel height be, at least, proportional to the font used if not configurable by hand outright. I prefer slightly larger font sizes which make it look cramped. Also, the text size settings in Universal Access should have an effect on it too.

Also, if someone were to undertake this task, don't forget to make sure the window controls are scaled and well placed. In past versions of Unity, when the panel would increase its size with the font the close button would drift slightly out of alignment and not touch the top left corner, so it wasn't possible to close the current window by throwing the cursor into the top left corner and clicking.

This is needed for using Ubuntu on high dpi screens. I have a 15,6" 1920x1200 screen and almost everything has been scaled properly, so more or less, everything looks like the same size of a standard 96 ppi screen, just more detailed. But the panel won't resize with the fonts and that looks VERY ugly.

I've heard Unity Next will have some sort of resolution independence. Is that true? That might solve the issue. Until then, I support Tin Tvrtkovic's proposal (#8): make the height of the panel and icon size dependent on the panel's font size.